+ NEW UPDATE: 12/2/14Adult applications are currently open! Be sure to take advantage of this opportunity while it's available. Adult applications will be open until December 15th. Once applications close, if you have an unfinished application that's sitting in the Adult Apps board, you will have 2 weeks to complete it.

+ NEW UPDATE: 11/24/14Please welcome our newest Deputy Head, Sage Winchester! Who will be in charge of Houses. Welcome to the team, Yoli!

- OLD UPDATE: 9/21/14NOTICE! If, after some time, you request to have an account bumped down you will be placed back into the year you were originally in before applying for a Year Bump, Adult, and/or Muggle/Squib. Only in the case of advancing through each year with the account in question, may you select which year you are bumped down to. This has been added to all application threads in the Sorting Ceremony and will be added to the HOS F.A.Q. for future reference.

- OLD UPDATE: 4/5/14A new guideline has been added to the Play-By Claims on the activity within Password Protected boards. Please take a look at the new guideline if you are one who frequents password protected boards to ensure your continuous claim on a play-by.

PERMANENT UPDATEPlease remember that, as a member with the power to move threads, they MUST be moved to the "REMOVED TOPICS TERM #" board located in the HOS Corner category, and nowhere else. The staff keeps finding threads in places where they don't belong. Make sure you have selected the correct board before moving threads to another area!

PERMANENT UPDATECBOX now requires registering your name in order to post. Both members and guests may access the CBOX. Contact a DH with any technical difficulties.

CURRENT EVENTSFOR FEBRUARY
The month of February is "Feel the Love" Month! This month show your appreciation and 'love' for certain members by awarding karma! Also, just remember to take the time to tell people how much you care. It is a nice way of showing appreciation to one another on the site. If you have any other ways of showing your love for people...do it! We are also trying something new this month by encouraging members to RP out their favorite ships... Crackships that is! We all know there are ships out there that we wish would happen, so let's make them happen! Have fun and enjoy all the feels, HOSers!
Happy Valentine's Day from the HOS Staff!

THE PLOT
The year is 2032, and the Wizarding World of Great Britain has found more peace now than in the last three decades. The crumbling castle of Hogwarts has been restored to its former glory, and wizarding families have been eased to know that the students are once again safe. Through the dust, however, some tensions have remained high. Those with special abilities, and half-human like creatures are more welcomed than before, but still pose a threat to wizard-kind and are regulated like 'beasts'. Even followers of the Dark Lord continue trying to gain control, but those of the Order step in. Every so often you hear about the past trying to relive itself in our future; Will you allow it? Shall the Wizarding World remain in tranquility as they worked so hard to earn it? Or will you take hand in shattering the glass of illusion? The decision is yours..

Here you will find the Sorting Ceremony thread for newly registered members to be placed in a house, as well as the Year Bump Application, Adult Application , and Muggle/Squib Application for those wanting to develop their character faster.

The Owlery is a circular stone room, rather cold and drafty, because none of the windows have glass in them. The floor is entirely covered in straw, owl droppings, and the regurgitated skeletons of mice and voles.

Want to store your prized possessions and your money? Come to Diagon Alley and submit your belongings to us and we shall take care of it, with goblins watching your things, and the vaults that go deep under the ground. No safer place!

Hogsmeade is a picturesque little village of thatched cottages and shops, with enchanted candles hanging in the trees during the holidays. It is also near the location of the train station used by the Hogwarts Express.

Wizard villages are places where wizards and witches live in secret. Sometimes they are found within Muggle communities, though at times they are not. Such wizarding towns and villages include, Godric's Hollow, Little Hangleton, Cokeworth, and Puddlemere. Just to name a few.